Form Rescued Is Not Content Gained: What Constrained Decoding Does to Accuracy, Why Published Studies Disagree About Its Sign, and the Parse-Failure Accounting That Decides the Small-Model Case

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). Form Rescued Is Not Content Gained: What Constrained Decoding Does to Accuracy, Why Published Studies Disagree About Its Sign, and the Parse-Failure Accounting That Decides the Small-Model Case [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23715242

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@misc{lor1492026,
  title        = {Form Rescued Is Not Content Gained: What Constrained Decoding Does to Accuracy, Why Published Studies Disagree About Its Sign, and the Parse-Failure Accounting That Decides the Small-Model Case},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23715242},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/149},
  keywords     = {constrained decoding, structured output, JSON schema, function calling, grammar-constrained generation, evaluation methodology, small language models, reasoning},
  note         = {LOR-00149}
}

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